THEKRI WALA:

A rickshaw overturned allegedly because of top velocity close to 79 Mor, killing 3 youngsters who fell off the automobile and right into a pond.

Police retrieved the our bodies from the pond and passed them over to their family.

Farzal Ali, a resident of Chak No. 139 GB, were to the Darbar Baba Rang Ali together with his nephews in his rickshaw to provide prayers and respects.

On his go back, the rickshaw misplaced regulate at 79 Mor, and the youngsters fell into the pond.

The 3 youngsters driving within the rickshaw, seven-year-old Hamad Shaukat, six-year-olds Rahman Parvez and Hifza Shahid drowned within the pond, whilst the motive force thankfully survived with minor accidents.

The SHO of Thikriwala Police Station, Saqib Riaz, reached the spot after receiving the details about the coincidence.

The rescue staff made tense efforts to seek out the our bodies of the youngsters. Initially they failed of their efforts, however due to this fact they controlled to seek out the our bodies  in 3 other spots that have been broadly aside.

Five of a circle of relatives have been killed and two others sustained accidents in a collision between an oil tanker and a bike rickshaw on Samundari Road in Dijkot within the month of May this yr.

According to police, a “dashing” oil tanker had hit a bike rickshaw close to Samundari Road. The deceased have been recognized as Ali, Matin, Ruqqiya Bibi, Iman Fatima and Noor Fatima.

The sufferers, who were citizens of 265 Rab Badi Nagan, died at the spot whilst the injured, Mohammad Rashid and his son Muqaddas, have been rushed to the clinic through the rescue staff.

Numerous other people had accumulated at the spot the place the our bodies of the sufferers have been mendacity.

The police began on the lookout for the motive force of the oil tanker who had escaped after the coincidence.

Also in May this yr, 8 of a circle of relatives were killed when their automotive collided head-on with a coaster at the Vehari-Multan Road.

The deceased have been recognized as Abdul Hameed, 60, his son, Sajjad Hussain, 33, daughter-in-law, Sanam Naz, 27, and granddaughters Sahil Umer, 15, Mashal, 7, and Mishal.

They died at the spot whilst two different grandchildren of Abdul Hameed, five-year-old Arsalan and 16-year-old Lubna, who had sustained critical accidents, died within the clinic.

Five passengers of the coaster additionally sustained critical accidents. The reason for the coincidence used to be stated to be over-speeding and the unhealthy situation of the Vehari-Multan Road. The ill-fated circle of relatives were going to Vehari to wait the Chehlum of Abdul Hameed’s son-in-law.

The coincidence used to be so critical that the automobile used to be destroyed. Upon receiving the details about the coincidence, the DC of Vehari, Khizar Afzal Chaudhry, Rescue 1122 team of workers and Tibba Sultanpur Police Station team of workers reached the spot.

The then Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz had expressed a deep sense of sorrow over the lack of valuable human lives and prolonged sympathies to the bereaved heirs.

He had directed the management to give you the very best clinical amenities to the injured, including that prison motion could be taken in opposition to the motive force liable for the coincidence.

Moreover, other people from other walks of lifestyles additionally expressed their grief over the tragic coincidence and stated that the dilapidated situation of the Multan-Vehari Road used to be liable for the lack of lives.

Talking to The Express Tribune, Sajid Masood, chairman of the Citizens Central Traders Association, and Babar Manzoor Dogal, president of the District Bar Association of Vehari, stated that the Vehari-Multan Road used to be the principle freeway of Pakistan, nevertheless it had lengthy been mendacity in a state of disrepair.

A identical tragedy had taken position in February this yr when 3 contributors of a circle of relatives were killed and 8 others injured when a tractor-trolley collided with a rickshaw close to Mohsinwali village on Talamba Link Road in Mian Chunnu.

A two-month-old child, his mom, step-mother and two different ladies have been killed within the coincidence.

The circle of relatives of Kashif, a resident of village 3/8R, who misplaced 3 family within the coincidence, used to be returning house within the rickshaw after operating within the potato fields together with different labourers.

As they approached the village, the tractor-trolley coming from the other way hit the rickshaw.

Kashif’s two better halves, Shamim Bibi and Maryam Bibi, two-month-old son Wasim, Shehzad Bibi and Zahid Bibi have been killed at the spot.

Kashif, Anam Bibi, Shahnaz Bibi, Nazia Bibi and Faiza Bibi have been seriously injured together with 3 other folks. Rescue 1122 team of workers took them to the tehsil headquarters clinic.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 9^th, 2022.